[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [RFC] including x264 with MPlayer tarballs

Wed Aug 24 14:09:14 CEST 2005

On Wednesday, 24 August 2005 at 14:04, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> Alexander Izvorski wrote:
> > That's tough:  because of the design of x264 all of the potentially
> > cpu-dependent functions are already in function pointers, there is no
> > provision to disable cpudetection.  Isn't
> > --disable-runtime-cpudetection more of a performance option anyway? 
> > x264 will not see a performance gain from that without significant
> > redesign, so I don't see that it really matters in this case.  The
> > only thing we can do is not compile some of the functions based on the
> > USE_* flags at compile-time, if desired.
> 
> IMHO it is useless too, it would only save a few (say, 20) KBs of code
> and about one second of assembling. I don't suppose that x264 will be
> used on systems where it matters.

Yeah, just skip it and leave runtime detection as is.

R.

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